Fifteen years after his military coup and his control of power, General Bionche decides to respond to popular and international pressure and hold a presidential referendum that determines his fate. The Minister of the Interior summons advertising expert and former detainee Adrian Bettini. To convince him to lead the campaign to make Pyoncé a success, the leader of the opposition coalition consisting of sixteen discordant parties proposes to Bettini a crazy idea: running the election campaign for the “No” campaign, which is embodied only in a short television advertisement.
Instead of the usual focus on the massacres, detainees, and the horrors of the past period, Bettini suggests that the title of the campaign be: Joy is Coming. Will a fifteen-minute announcement succeed in overthrowing a dictatorial rule that lasted fifteen years?
In an optimistic, poetic style, Scarmetta tells a true struggle story of hope and joy, in the darkest of times, in a country longing for freedom.
About the novel.....
Rashid is a twenty-year-old young man, an orphan of parents. He grows up in the care of his aunt in Dubai. After his aunt’s death, he decides to return to his father’s house in a village in Fujairah. He brings workers to restore the old house and gets to know his neighbors in the village, and the father, Abdullah, and his granddaughter, Maryam.
Voices and ghosts begin to appear from the wall of the house, and each of them tells a story related to Rashid’s parents. The ghosts continue to appear and tell their stories, and Rashid becomes immersed in these stories, until the whole truth comes together about the death of his parents, the fire on his father’s farm, and the location of the treasure that was stolen, and the novel ends with his discovery. For the location of the treasure that Maryam’s father recovered and hid in a safe place until he found it, Rashid also searches for the real Maryam and marries her.
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